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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: I invite Mr. Griffin to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: May the committee publish the statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: That is a terrible thing to say. That never happens.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: Mr. Griffin will come back with the detail on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: If there is not such a team, can he state clearly that there is not? If there is, will he state who they are? He can always contact the clerk.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: Can he provide the information as soon as possible? Deputy Perry is anxious to have it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: We will also refer the transcript of the meeting to the EPA. I do not want that to hold up Mr. Griffin's response.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: He also spoke of custom and practice in answering parliamentary questions. I do not refer specifically to Mr. Griffin but the bureaucracy of the State has become so accustomed to the practice of not answering parliamentary questions that it has forgotten how to use custom and practice to answer them.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: It is only because Deputy Perry used to be Vice Chairman.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: What would Mr. Griffin say?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: Would Mr. Griffin say that, having been caught out, the Department has improved the procedures?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: There is a bit of a bureaucratic speak for Deputy Connaughton.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: Is it the case that the post office network comprises 1,142 retail outlets?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: What is the broadband speed in those offices? Has there been investment, similar to that in schools, to ensure that each post office has a broadband speed at the cutting edge of business in order to develop its services?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: Is it not essential for the Department to know that so that, on either Bobby Kerr’s business group or the financial group Mr. Griffin spoke about, it would know just how much the post office itself was putting into its infrastructure? If it is not doing so, it is not showing much of a commitment to the 1,139 post offices.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: Is that the hardware and software in each post office or the feed of the broadband?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: Who can answer it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: Do any of Mr. Griffin's officials here know?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: The Department is quicker in giving the information to us than An Post would be.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) John McGuinness: The other issue in regard to An Post concerns the Post Office Network Business Development Group and the banking issues the financial group is talking about. It is a bit negative or poorly timed that, as the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources is considering the future of post offices, the Department of Social Protection is writing to the clients of post offices...